5 INDIE FILMS YOU HAVE TO SEE

We live in an era where franchise movies and their endless sequels and spin-offs are rife. Where your film and television subscription package offers you hundreds of TV shows and movies to watch, yet you still find it difficult to find a decent film that appeases your appetite.

For those of you that are looking for a film that is a little bit different, has you thinking about it afterwards, and can be re-watched countless times, then allow me to recommend these 5 indie classics…

Jim Jarmusch’s feature-film debut is a bleak but strangely fascinating tale about a deadbeat New Yorker and the unexpected arrival of his Hungarian cousin who has to stay with him for the interim.

The film is partly a road-movie and almost a kitchen-sink drama at times, but without the drama as such.

There’s also a particularly likeable and humorous friendship with the two male leads, as a couple of poker-playing hustlers which makes for some off-beat entertainment.

Another unique aspect to this film are the locations and the cinematography which paints New York and the mid-west as a barren, almost alien-like landscape which gives the movie a European feel about it.

Don’t let the fact that it is shot in black and white put you off; it adds to the mood of the story and sets it in stone as a timeless, idiosyncratic, indie classic.

With a career spanning over 30 years of directing movies, it will probably be this — his feature film debut — that will be regarded as his magnum opus and the one film that he is most likely to be remembered for.

A Kafkaesque tale and an unlikely friendship forms when Mandy Patinkin and James Spader get more than they bargained for after a game of poker with two millionaires.

The film is predominantly a showcase for Spader’s acting prowess as the colourful and fast-talking Jack Pozzi; a card shark hustler whose morality and character is tested to the limit with the predicament that he and Patinkin find themselves in.

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Gonzo Magazine reviews films and the occasional book, gives recommendations, and offers some discussion on cinema. There’s also a segment interviewing artists and promoting their work and we have a fondness for the 80’s and 90’s as well as an eternal love for Horror movies